first time i spoke against vietnam, my son was then 9 years old. he's now 19, and faced with the draft. it never occurred to me when i started speaking out against that war that it would some day catch my own son 10 years later. >> reporter: he voted in favorite of the 1964 resolution which authorized military action in vietnam and would regret it. as the years dragged on, he would become more and more adamant that the solution for vietnam was political and not military. by 1972, he accepted the democratic nomination for president at 3:00 a.m., and his platform revolved around an appeal of withdrawal from vietnam. >> come home, america, to the affirmation that we have a dream, to the conviction -- >> i knew that we had 75 or 80 million people out there watching the convention during the horse play time. i was probably lucky if i had 2 million people watching at 2:30 in the morning. we did well in guam, as i recall. we were out in primetime out there. that was about the only place where it was well timed. >> reporter: after nixon brutally defeated h